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Originally Posted by donquixote99
The BATF and Ann Richardson, (especially the BATF), deserve great blame for the needless, lawless, tactically-brainless, initial, botched, PR-stunt raid.
The FBI deserves great blame for the needless final assault. They didn't like the duty of watching the joint until they starved them out? Tough.
With all this great load of blame apportioned already, there is little enough left for David and the Davidians. If they started their own fire, they had the laws playing the forces of evil so convincingly that there was little chance left for their always-limited rationality to somehow rescue them.
Janet Reno doubtless bears some responsibility in this whole mess, but not enough to make her the central hate figure, as far as I know....
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The Branch Davidians were only culpable for their decision to associate with this group, which should not have been a Capitol offense. Otherwise this cascading grandstanding of departmental overreach was both tragic and inexplicable to anything other than interdepartmental hubris. The subsequent lack of accountability was alarming but typical for poor oversight and cooperation.
03-29-2014, 11:19 AM
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